<p>The POM Code Convention convention recommends listing modifiers in the following order:</p>
<ol>
<li> &lt;modelVersion/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;parent/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;groupId/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;artifactId/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;version/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;packaging/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;name/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;description/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;url/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;inceptionYear/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;organization/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;licenses/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;developers/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;contributors/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;mailingLists/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;prerequisites/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;modules/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;scm/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;issueManagement/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;ciManagement/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;distributionManagement/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;properties/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;dependencyManagement/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;dependencies/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;repositories/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;pluginRepositories/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;build/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;reporting/&gt;
</li><li> &lt;profiles/&gt;
</li></ol>
<p>Not following this convention has no technical impact, but will reduce the pom's readability because most developers are used to the standard order.</p>

<h2>See</h2>
<ul>
<li> <a href="https://maven.apache.org/developers/conventions/code.html#POM_Code_Convention">POM Code Convention</a>
</li></ul>
